minima

minima is a Latin form of parvus, meaning “small, little”.

It can also be a form of minimus, “smallest, least”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.4: Helvetii ea spe deiecti navibus iunctis ratibusque compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat, non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis munitione et …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.1.3: Minima autem multa est ovis unius. Suprema multa est eius numeri cuius diximus, ultra quem multam dicere in dies singulos ius non est, et propterea suprema appellatur, id est summa et maxima.

All forms of parvus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.